Daopei Lu, Academician

● Chief scientist, world-renowned haematologist and China's key discipline leader

● Founder of the Institute of Haematology, Peking University

● Distinguished Professor of Peking University, Fudan University and Wuhan University

● Vice-Chairman of the 19~22nd Chinese Medical Association, former Vice-Chairman of the Asian Haematology Association (AHA) and Chairman of the 11th International Haematology Conference.

● Awarded Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1996

Academic Achievements

● Successfully completed the first syngeneic bone marrow transplantation in Asia (1964).

● Successfully completed the first allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in China (1981).

● Successfully completed the first major ABO-incompatible bone marrow transplantation in China (late 1980s).

● For the first time, it proved that arsenic sulfide has a significant effect on some leukemia (1995).

● Unprecedentedly guided to establish the cord blood bank in China (1997).

● Successfully completed the first allogeneic umbilical cord blood transplantation and systematically developed this transplantation in China (1997).

● Firstly applied some immunotherapies to control acute leukemia and obtained a remarkable therapeutic efficacy.

● Firstly identified three hereditary blood diseases in China.

● Firstly reported the remarkable efficacy of lithospermum and its extract on vascular purpura and phlebitis.

● As the editor-in-chief, associate editor-in-chief or editorial board member of 8 Chinese medical journals and the editorial board member of two international journals like Bone Marrow Transplantation and Journal of Hematology & Oncology. Published over 400 papers/books including 4 complied monographs like Leukemia Therapeutics and attended the composing of 19 publications.

Honors and Awards

● Second prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award (1985).

● The 7th Tan Kah Kee Prize in Medical Sciences (1997).

● The 3rd Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Progress Award (1997).

● First Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Award (2006).

● Distinguished Service Contribution Award from CIBMTR (2016).

● Lifetime Achievement Award from China Anti-Cancer Association (2016).